Business cases of DevOps transformation of large projects: Wins and Fails.

Our program consists of content divided into 3 levels of difficulty (aka hardcoreness): introduction to technology, for practicing engineers, hardcore. In addition to delivering the talks our speakers also lead the discussions at our discussion area after the talk where attendees can interact with speakers and ask questions.

Speakers

John WillisSJ Technologies

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. Currently he is Vice President of DevOps and Digital Practices at SJ Technologies. He was formerly Director of Ecosystem Development at Docker. Prior to Docker, Willis was the VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell). Prior to to Socketplane and Enstratius, Willis was the VP of Training and Services at Opscode, where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

Liz RiceAqua Security

Liz RiceAqua Security

Liz's background and core competence is systems software engineering, but she loves the whole process of building products. She's been in startups that have succeeded and others that have failed. Liz enjoys writing code, and understanding how other people will use it. She's now the technology evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security. She's also co-chairing the KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2018 events in Copenhagen, Shanghai and Seattle.

Seth VargoGoogle

Seth VargoGoogle

Seth Vargo is a Developer Advocate at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth enjoys spending time with his friends and advising non-profits.

Baruch SadogurskyJFrog

Baruch SadogurskyJFrog

Developer Advocate of JFrog, the creators of Artifactory Binary Repository, the home of Bintray, and JavaOne 2011 Duke Choice Awards winner. For a living he hangs out with the JFrog tech leaders, writes some code around Artifactory and Bintray, and then speaks and blogs about all that. He does it repeatedly for the last 10 years and enjoys every moment of it.

Alena ProkharchykRancher Labs

Alena ProkharchykRancher Labs

Alena is a Principal Software Engineer at Rancher Labs and a Project Management Committee at Apache Software Foundation. She's been working on building infrastructure services first for Virtual Machines as a part of CloudStack project, now for containers with the main focus on Kubernetes. Alena enjoys helping others make sense of problems and explore solutions together. In her free she likes rollerblading, reading books on totally random subjects and listening to other people's stories.

Viktor Gamov Confluent

Viktor Gamov Confluent

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka.

Working in the field, Viktor Gamov developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping different organizations design and develop low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.

Back in his consultancy days, he co-authored O'Reilly's "Enterprise Web Development".

He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, Java, and JavaScript topics, and is regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He blogs at http://gamov.io and produces the podcasts Razbor Poletov (in Russian) and co-hosts DevRelRad.io.

Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts about gym life, food, open source, and, of course, Kafka and Confluent!

Anton WeissOtomato

Anton WeissOtomato

The co-owner of Otomato Software technological consulting, has got over 15 years of experience in cutting-edge technologies. An expert in technical coaching, the initiator and co-author of the first Israeli DevOps certification course. Anton takes part in international conferences and is known as a great speaker.

Kirill TolkachevCIAN

Kirill TolkachevCIAN

Up until recently Kirill was a lead developer at Alfa-Lab. He was developing different banking APIs, forming principles and tools related to microservice architecture. He is a fan of Groovy, Gradle, Spring and Netflix technologies stack. Kirill is a resident of famous Russian IT-podcast "Razbor Poletov". He knows DevOps methodology like the palm of his hand and has four years' experience of its production usage.

Vladimir BorodinYandex

Leonid IgolnikSignalFx

Leonid is a technologist blending product development, product management and product operations at scale. He has spent his entire professional career building online applications starting his career at one of the earliest internet service providers in Israel. Leonid first started building large scale applications in Java in 2002 while working for the 2nd largest domain registrar at the time at Tucows/OpenSRS where he led the platform team. Subsequently to that he held several technology leadership roles with companies in Canada and US. Most recently Leonid has been responsible for engineering teams at Taleo (acquired by Oracle) building applications that help millions of people find jobs that have propelled the company to a position of one of the 4 largest SaaS companies in the world.

Anton BabenkoBetajob

Anton BabenkoBetajob

Anton Babenko is a long time developer, CTO, and tech-lead who is spending a large amount of his time as an open source contributor to various Terraform & AWS projects, terraform-aws-modules, modules.tf and a few others. The most popular one is where he manages a collection of verified Terraform AWS modules which is being downloaded more than 1 million times. He also leads AWS, DevOps and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and speaks often at various technical meetups and conferences. He is passionate about all-things-cloud and solution architecture combined with automation and scripting.

Alexey KirpichnikovKontur

Alexey KirpichnikovKontur

Alexey works at Kontur and builds infrastructure-as-a-service for Kontur's product developers. Alexey's core interests are metrics, alerting, log agregation, service discovery, deploy, hosting and every other tool a developer needs in order to concentrate on features and stop thinking about operations.

Alexey was formerly a team lead at Yandex, bringing Yandex.Taxi backend infrastructure from the ground up to the millionth ride.

Ivan PonomarevKURS / MIPT

Ivan PonomarevKURS / MIPT

Tech lead in KURS company, tutor at MIPT. Has more than 15 years of experience in IT. Writes code and manages projects ranging from ERP systems customization to building a real-time webscraping system. Sometimes shares his experience as a speaker at conferences and meetups.

Oksana NekrasovaDell EMC

Oksana NekrasovaDell EMC

Oksana leads DevOps team at Dell EMC. Before this she participated in development, architecture and management of different projects within Dell EMC and Motorola. Oksana became SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and in this position participated in transformation of big Business Unit from waterfall development process to agile. The process of this transformation was presented at SECR 2015 conference in Moscow, Russia.

Oksana is very interested in DevOps technologies and development processes.

Ruslan SerkinDataArt

Ruslan SerkinDataArt

Ruslan works on blockchain and IoT projects at DataArt, writes code in JavaScript and Go; likes K8s and Docker; teaches web development in his spare time.

Evgeny Dekhtyarev2GIS

Evgeny Dekhtyarev2GIS

Three years ago Evgeny came to 2GIS to organize its infrastructure. Since then he has changed his broom to Kubernetes robotic vacuum cleaner. Now he helps his teams use the infrastructure correctly and without causing any harm to the company's budget. Recently he has been leading an infrastructure engineer team and procrastinating on loads of meetings every week :)

Anton RymkusDell EMC

Anton RymkusDell EMC

Anton works in a DevOps command for Dell EMC as an architect and team lead. Before that he worked for 15 years as system administrator, system engineer and IT dept. manager, resulting in decision to make a personal digital transformation into a DevOps engineer to work in more dynamic and interesting field.

Follows *nix and BSD-based OS, open source and process optimization.

Discussion zone

Special areas to chat with speakers during the coffee breaks. No censor, no panic, no time limit.

BoF-sessions

Discussions with no leaders or speakers. The very secret place where the new ideas are born to define the future.

Program committee

Baruch SadogurskyJFrog

Baruch SadogurskyJFrog

Developer Advocate of JFrog, the creators of Artifactory Binary Repository, the home of Bintray, and JavaOne 2011 Duke Choice Awards winner. For a living he hangs out with the JFrog tech leaders, writes some code around Artifactory and Bintray, and then speaks and blogs about all that. He does it repeatedly for the last 10 years and enjoys every moment of it.

Baruch Sadogursky / JFrog

Developer Advocate of JFrog, the creators of Artifactory Binary Repository, the home of Bintray, and JavaOne 2011 Duke Choice Awards winner. For a living he hangs out with the JFrog tech leaders, writes some code around Artifactory and Bintray, and then speaks and blogs about all that. He does it repeatedly for the last 10 years and enjoys every moment of it.

Vladimir SitnikovNetcracker

Vladimir SitnikovNetcracker

Vladimir has been working on performance and scalability of NetCracker platform (A software used by telecom operators for automatization of network management processes and network equipment) for ten years. His focus is Java and Oracle Database performance optimisations. Vladimir is an author of more than a dozen of performance improvements in the official PostgreSQL JDBC driver.

Vladimir Sitnikov / Netcracker

Vladimir has been working on performance and scalability of NetCracker platform (A software used by telecom operators for automatization of network management processes and network equipment) for ten years. His focus is Java and Oracle Database performance optimisations. Vladimir is an author of more than a dozen of performance improvements in the official PostgreSQL JDBC driver.

Alena ProkharchykRancher Labs

Alena ProkharchykRancher Labs

Alena is a Principal Software Engineer at Rancher Labs and a Project Management Committee at Apache Software Foundation. She's been working on building infrastructure services first for Virtual Machines as a part of CloudStack project, now for containers with the main focus on Kubernetes. Alena enjoys helping others make sense of problems and explore solutions together. In her free she likes rollerblading, reading books on totally random subjects and listening to other people's stories.

Alena Prokharchyk / Rancher Labs

Alena is a Principal Software Engineer at Rancher Labs and a Project Management Committee at Apache Software Foundation. She's been working on building infrastructure services first for Virtual Machines as a part of CloudStack project, now for containers with the main focus on Kubernetes. Alena enjoys helping others make sense of problems and explore solutions together. In her free she likes rollerblading, reading books on totally random subjects and listening to other people's stories.

Viktor Gamov Confluent

Viktor Gamov Confluent

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka.

Working in the field, Viktor Gamov developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping different organizations design and develop low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.

Back in his consultancy days, he co-authored O'Reilly's "Enterprise Web Development".

He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, Java, and JavaScript topics, and is regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He blogs at http://gamov.io and produces the podcasts Razbor Poletov (in Russian) and co-hosts DevRelRad.io.

Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts about gym life, food, open source, and, of course, Kafka and Confluent!

Viktor Gamov / Confluent

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka.
Working in the field, Viktor Gamov developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping different organizations design and develop low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.
Back in his consultancy days, he co-authored O'Reilly's "Enterprise Web Development".
He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, Java, and JavaScript topics, and is regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He blogs at http://gamov.io and produces the podcasts Razbor Poletov (in Russian) and co-hosts DevRelRad.io.
Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts about gym life, food, open source, and, of course, Kafka and Confluent!

Leonid IgolnikSignalFx

Leonid IgolnikSignalFx

Leonid is a technologist blending product development, product management and product operations at scale. He has spent his entire professional career building online applications starting his career at one of the earliest internet service providers in Israel. Leonid first started building large scale applications in Java in 2002 while working for the 2nd largest domain registrar at the time at Tucows/OpenSRS where he led the platform team. Subsequently to that he held several technology leadership roles with companies in Canada and US. Most recently Leonid has been responsible for engineering teams at Taleo (acquired by Oracle) building applications that help millions of people find jobs that have propelled the company to a position of one of the 4 largest SaaS companies in the world.

Leonid Igolnik / SignalFx

Leonid is a technologist blending product development, product management and product operations at scale. He has spent his entire professional career building online applications starting his career at one of the earliest internet service providers in Israel. Leonid first started building large scale applications in Java in 2002 while working for the 2nd largest domain registrar at the time at Tucows/OpenSRS where he led the platform team. Subsequently to that he held several technology leadership roles with companies in Canada and US. Most recently Leonid has been responsible for engineering teams at Taleo (acquired by Oracle) building applications that help millions of people find jobs that have propelled the company to a position of one of the 4 largest SaaS companies in the world.

Tatiana ChernikovaNetcracker

Tatiana ChernikovaNetcracker

Lead Software Engineer of Development Practices department in NetCracker. Spent more than 6 years working on the edge between Release Engineering, Development and IT. Started with support of existing systems which then evolved to process transformations, new tools in VCS & CI streams and their integrations with other parts of NetCracker's dev ecosystem. Likes Groovy, Jenkins, JUG.ru Group conferences and to make developers happy.

Tatiana Chernikova / Netcracker

Lead Software Engineer of Development Practices department in NetCracker. Spent more than 6 years working on the edge between Release Engineering, Development and IT. Started with support of existing systems which then evolved to process transformations, new tools in VCS & CI streams and their integrations with other parts of NetCracker's dev ecosystem. Likes Groovy, Jenkins, JUG.ru Group conferences and to make developers happy.

Andrey KogunKROK

Andrey KogunKROK

Software development expert, more than 15 years in IT. Took part in many projects on custom development, basically of e-document flow systems and business processes automatization for a number of big Russian companies, as a senior developer and architect.

Teaches at Moscow universities the development basics using Java technologies. Develops and makes advanced trainings for developers with hand-on experience. Organizer and leader of jug.msk.ru — Moscow Java developers community. Besides the community meetups organizes and develops region developers communities.

Andrey Kogun / KROK

Software development expert, more than 15 years in IT. Took part in many projects on custom development, basically of e-document flow systems and business processes automatization for a number of big Russian companies, as a senior developer and architect.
Teaches at Moscow universities the development basics using Java technologies. Develops and makes advanced trainings for developers with hand-on experience. Organizer and leader of jug.msk.ru — Moscow Java developers community. Besides the community meetups organizes and develops region developers communities.